The Shark^® 250 advanced power and energy meter is designed for utility substation and critical industrial applications. Improve the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of your facility with its high accuracy and power quality monitoring capability.

Prevent Tampering with Customizable Security Features

• For NERC CIP compliance.
• An admin and up to eight users.
• Encrypted, 30-character passwords.
• Role-based authorization.
• Password fail timeouts to eliminate brute force attacks.
• IP Allow lists with Ethernet cards.

• Up to 512 samples/cycle waveform recording.
• Storage for up to 319 events in the power and energy meter.
• Waveform scope of real time voltage and current.
• Independent CBEMA or SEMI F47 log plotting with millisecond time stamp for accuracy.
• Harmonic recording to the 40th order.
• View and analyze electrical system power factor.

Designed for Legacy and Advanced Smart Substation Applications

• Standard RS485 and front panel USB ports.
• Two optional simultaneous Ethernet ports with IPv4/IPv6, encryption, programmable firewalls, email on alarm, periodic notification email, HTML5-based web server, and digital firmware signature.
• Optional RS485/RS232 serial port.
• Modbus ASCII/RTU/TCP, Level 2 DNP3, and IEC 61850 protocols.

Perform Detailed Load Studies

• Six independently programmable historical logs for trending.
• Log 64+ parameters per log in the power and energy meter.
• Over 6 years of recording and storage for 4 parameters at 15-minute intervals.
• System Events anti-tampering log, I/O change log, and Limit/Alarm log.

Send Data to Multiple Applications

• Install up to two cards in meter’s option card slots.
• Four pulse outputs/four status inputs (PO1S).
• Two relay outputs/two status inputs (RO1S).
• Four channel, bi-directional 0-1mA outputs (1mAOS).
• Four channel 4-20 mA outputs (20mAOS).
• RS232/RS485 card (RS1S).
• 100BaseT Ethernet card (INP100S).
• IEC 61850 protocol Ethernet card (INP300S).

Designed for Harsh Environments

• Compliant with IEC 610186-1/2/3 (high reliability).
• Improved surge withstand capability.
• Intrinsically safe current connections.
• Direct power and energy meter replacement to analog or older electrical meters.

• Utility Substation Metering.
• Distribution Automation.
• Alternative Energy.
• SCADA Substation Metering.
• Distributed Energy / Microgrid.